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For the purpose of the successful analysis of existing technologies, we will try to reproduce the main arguments that were likely made by the previous generations of process developers. On the one hand, it is interesting to retrace why the original ideas have established such a rigid paradigm that is widely shared by the industrial and scientific communities and, by force of habit, remains without any critical view till date. On the other hand, it becomes clear why the process layouts in many applications look so uniform even when it is not demanded by the physical or chemical nature [e.g., purification processes, including ultra-deep hydrodesulfurization (see Chap. 6)].
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Datsevich, L.B. (2012). Traditional Approaches to the Design of Fixed-Bed Reactors. In: Conventional Three-Phase Fixed-Bed Technologies. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, vol 7. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4836-5_3
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